Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Snapshot
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is the primary foreign-language school of the US Department of Defense . Housed at the Presidio of Monterey army base, the agency provides military and government personnel with resident training in some two-dozen languages and several dialects. Its programs provide full-time instruction and last between six and 14 months, depending on the difficulty of the language being taught. The school also offers immersion programs, both abroad and at an off-site facility, at which speaking English is prohibited. The Army established the DLIFLC as a secret Japanese-language school in 1941, five weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor.